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wbolwa watchhas tlth1 ; ... tw0 dollars payable in paid in advance two dollars cat|lforthefirst.anÂ»195ctt â€¢.,.,,,;,â€ž ins.-rii c.mrtorders ,.,â€ž, he crates a lib sel,y,heyear ktm jackson california > april 20 1852 $ ., r i hue jnsl received yours uary although i wrote to you proceed forthwith to answer i \ 1 wish to know something nds here j now i advise you rom here il matters not bnv__wbite folks aie uneer 1 ,_, about negroes men are es here nor are there ' _- utile ones it takes hard deal ol economy to make lars a year lo lhe band l own esperience ;) ihis is so ie ni.n do much better â€” but there - tnds who do much t ev hands here c&q make more * "' ,., company expenses are very . ; me larger the company the ted alter having so large a i in niager that i could ii 0 advantageously it is very ' , j-e that a man cannot hold good ' j enough to employ many hands many _ â€¢ e labor under here that - ahout pie in burkeandthe adjoining conn ' lzy about california mark what i j â€ž#_ perhaps many ot them will be or ver entered into such a specula ; ol ihe new comers have wished that i - tried and what must be the lbe mcdowell county company who v 1st december ; â€” last account ihey were ! llexicu left iheir vessel she ler provisions and lhe captain i t the passengers remain there at i , of ihe natives uu idea of coming lo this coun ml few hands wilh you â€” settle on a he kind ol stock most profitable.it | business than digging and if you j ied iu live in ibis country you in the i ime could make a pietfy fortune and enjoy perhaps lir_t tale healih inging lo maj smyth mor bab vli 1 ne ( muddy creek died 1 here â€” u._-o a man named walker i . perkins and thos corpening reached â€¢. days siuce in good health their j 1 none of ihem in very good ! ber a poor prospect before them i ta doing verv well now making near half baud bui soon as 1 work out my . not bave tu hunt better diggings as will last longer â€” moving aboul ga list miners here but we are do i write as often as conven 1 uni yours c i j forney f iliwtrated family friend hv 1 t wli to be a benedict 1 , 1 l.liot greene ii . c id are ihey who say that love â€¢ cl in the heart . il time 5 ml blossoms tart ! ml that springs at ouce i md pert'i ei form ; ; lie oak . - uol in the storm a <;. graham â– sir the stagecoach is in wailing chimed in lhe waiter a second . . arouse me fully as i sat en 11 lhe fumes ol my cheroot be â€¢ in smyth's hotel in tbe | i morganton north carolina go to thunder ! but tell ihe driver v a moment for me muttered 1 j iw ingly enough and busied mv g mj little etceteras previous to wing my travels ; for 1 bad balled a stage j . irtly to enjoy tbo magnificent scenery and partly on account of the lie weather ihough moderate was still in m tich winds high and chilly *'â€¢*- around lhe way farer's head with bi 1 and moaned and roared and howl es in lhe lofty pines and down - - 8 in the distance but yet lo continue my jaunt on the stion and having made my prep â– '. ith the host kc at last j winding horn ol the driver by i ii 1 found 11 already tenant s mages ; one a beautiful young - gentlemen the lady was â– t beautiful as bean could wish j'5 were like unto the melting eyes ol 1 her hair the raven her brow ibe ' cheeks lhe rose her lips like â€” like -â€¢â€” il.e fever and set my brain all 1 ana intoxicate tne even nuw as il â– ii drinking new wine but let that mlemen were both genteel look ) we about live-arid twenty the lineof life the latter evidently ' â€¢ j t ; '" - tir>ack !" went the driver's whip j over lhe frozen road towards liu j m the day advanced more bois '--â– â– - lhe winds and more biting the ! > - rÂ«elttnmycloak,isunkbackin r with the cold and muse â– - o the fair being beside me 3 become dark and 1 could no '" her bright animating counten i ' ld mused but a lew moments when , ' rudely aroused from my pleas | â€¢ - n one hailing us from he 1 hegging the driver to halt , . p gently boys still stand r diew up bis panting cattle redÂ°u hi the gloom and dark 3 who it could be out in such a > he-**j place on such a bitter 1 side ofthe road stood a mid ! uman and four thinly clad children 80 kind sir as to give us pass ; ** charlotte beggeb the half here is five dollars to pay the j and she reached r s'lver to the driver j ia luarm already full crowded me way -â€¢ je'uh n,e what shall i do but . h,j*hai,d gentlemen has just ./'>; ht and is now lying fo .,,, e n of death hewou-ir "â€¢^. ere wi,h'Â»y children and ! through ihe mountains | the carolina watchman j j muner ) r . _ ( keep a cnecitttpon all youk editor 4 proprietor ) rulers { new series do this and liberty is safe < gen'l harrison [ volume ix number 15 . salisbury n c thursday august 12 1852 and have been waitinu h*w io ik__.___^i_j-._-j __:_ i â– 7 t -. es â€” â– "- â– Â«â€¢ â– Â«>= tuiu tuu liiin lor three hours for the stage imtil iwo of my children are speechless wiih cold and then lo be disappointed !" and the poor woman bum into tears Â«â€¢ pity ! piiy ! oh ! lord have mercy upon them ejaculated the beautiful maiden at my side bui pa we must take them in gen tleraen who will be so gallant as to vacate their seats for ihese poor helpless creatures see those poor little children are freezing to death remember gud hath said as ymf do it unto lbe least of these you do it unto me " i would be happy to gratify you miss al ! ice now spoke for the first lime the young gentleman whom i afterwards learned was an important suitor of lhe lady's favored by the father but scorned by he lady favored not lor his virtues but for his princely fortune " i would be happy to gratify you miss alice delancy but would rather be excused irom vacating a comfortable seat and your pleas ant society to give place ior these rude pau pers especially in these mountains in the mid die of such a cold bitter night here wo man take that and begone to some neighbor ! ing farm house and travel at some more 6ea ' sonable hour and he threw in her face a few pieces of silver there is no house in four miles sir the waters are rising last and we would drown or j ireeze on our way back take only my chil dien then and i'll walk alone myself oh ! j do lor the sake of the lives of my children j â€” for the sake of heaven !" and wilh a pite ous moan the poor woman bent forward and gazed imploringly almost frantically up into our laces " by all that's sacred i cant stand this ; they shall have my seat if i should perish on the road !" exclaimed i opening tbe coach door and springing out " here driver lash my baggage to the top of the stage and stow pari of these children into the boot haste ! if you please sir and there is a dollar for your trou ble " oh ! sir kind sir but god will reward you !" murmuied the grateful woman as she seated herself in the coach " will you permit me kind sir to thank you also lor your very humane and gentlemanly conduct spoke the young lady as she extend ed lo rue her soft delicate hand and bestowing one of the sweetest smiles imaginable you have my gratitude sir and proloundest regard true nobility is difficult to find sir hence i would be happy to know more of you â€” but the coach is starting adieu adieu and in a moment 1 found myself alone upon the road ******* twelve months after the events recorded above 1 found myself strolling alone in millord park new orleans striving vainly to overcome a depression ol spirit that had come over me some days previous irom the sad intelligence received from my father that thiough the vil lainy and treachery ofa partner in business he had become a bankrupt and lhal we were now â€” beggars sad sad news to me with my eyes bent upon the ground i strolled along in such an agony of mind thai i scarce noted the fine carriages that passed and re-passed me every moment or the many gay parlies around and was awakened only from my reverie by the flul lei ing of a pei fumed note that fell at my feet as 1 a splei.did coach and four dashed past me â€” , picking it up 1 was somewhat astonished on j reading lhe lollowing â€” " mr ralph emmerson i will please call at 22 corner of benard and st st james streets this evening at six o . clock not a little puzzled to discover who it was | thai dropped the note i betook myself back lo ( my rooms at the si charles lo await lhe ap poinied hour although my father had been j long and favorably known as a wealthy thrifty merchant in new orleans yet i was myself quite a stranger in the city not having the pleas j tue ol an acquaintance wilh a single lady lor 1 had been absent from home for a number ol j years and had returned but a few days pre 1 vious four years oi my life had been spent in foreign travel and one the lasl in searching for lhe fair stranger 1 met 12 months previous in the stage coach running from morganton to lincolnton north carolina who could it be then could it be alice delancy the long lost long sought of my heart ? but no ! no vet the hour draws nigh 1 will wait ; and lor j a time my curiosity and anxiety drowned the heavy weight al my heart and alleviated my soriows occasioned by the misfortunes of my , lather lt wants but forty minutes of the hour how heavy how slowly lime flies thirty minutes twenty-five ah 1 can't wait longer j â€¢> hilloa omnibus drive me to 22 corner o , bernard and st james streets and in five minutes i was set down before a princely man sion 1 rang lhe bell and was ushered by a servant through a suit of rooms into a gor geously decorated chamber where i was re quested to tarry a moment seating myself on a rich sola 1 ran my admiring eyes over the magnificent mirrors and paintings tha decora ted'.he walls when i thought i recognized a familiar countenance in a painting suspended j over a mantel . , ; approaching it i perceived to my joy and astonishment that it was the likeness of my long sough alice delancy of stage coach me mofy.and forgetting myself andmy whereabouts i my ex.acy 1 sprangjoyfully forward exc aim ing aloud alice sweet alice and hate i found vou at last a merry peal of laughter rang out behind me just as i was reaching ou my arms to embrace the loved f>ih startled half abashed i turned round and be original herself but i was so overpowered i could nol utter a word of greeting nor the lady either for perceiving my ex.acy before her l^r trait as she entered she could do nought tn her modesty but stand and blush scarlet in a mo men however 1 had gained my jj so far as to greet the fair lady and lead her 10 and gentle reader before i arose from that sofa i-ugh-but my wife will nol let me tell how 1 popped the question and was accepted ; she hasp hepr hand upon my mouth and threatens me wiih sore punishment if i say anything a oout the many sweel kisses " oh ! well pray alice dear behave and i will skip over that i part let it suffice dear reader i wag united in a cw weeks to the gentle alice by and wiih the j advice and consent of her father who bad long since like a sensible man given up all hopes of selecting a husband for his daughter â€” as he soon learned both by experience and observa i tion that every woman was by far the best ' qualified to choose her own husband and also | the truth of that aphorism that â€” " when she will she will you may depend on't aud when she won't she won't so there's an end on't editing a paper hear what the national intelligencer says about editing a newspaper : many people estimate the ability of newspaper and the industry and talent of i its editor by the editorial matter it con ', tains it is comparatively an easy task j for a frothy writer to pour out daily col ' umns of words â€” words upon any and all j subjects his ideas may flow in one j wishy-washy everlasting flood and his command of language may enable him to string them together like bunches of on | ions ; and yet his paper may be a meagre j and poor concern but what is the toil j ofsuchaman who displays his leaded matter largely to that imposed on a judi cious well informed editor who exercises his vocation with an hourly consciousness ol his responsibilities and duties and de votes himself to the conduct of his paper with the same care and assiduity that a sensible lawyer bestows upon a suit a hu mane physician upon a patient without regard to show or display ! indeed the mere writing part of editing a paper is but a small portion of the work the care the time employed in selecting is far more important than the fact of a good editor better known by his selections lhan any thing else and that we all know is half the battle but as we have said an edi tor ought to be estimated and his labors understood and apprciated by the gener al conduct ot his paper its tone its princi ple and aims its manliness its dignity and propriety to preserve these as they should be preserved is enough to occupy fully ihe time and attention of any many if to this be added the general supervision of the newspaper establishment which most editors have to encounter the won der is how they find time to write at all sky high sir sky high wherever the news of gen pierce's " home views " on the fugitive slave law and the in stitutions ofthe soulh has extended il has pro duced a prodigious sensation in charlottes i viile a public meeting was forthwith held and j the changes rung upon the shameful fraud with immense effect people are beginning to won der in all quarters that they could have been imposed upon so long by such gross impostures the revelations from new boston exhibit the locolocos in the very act of playing a yan kee trick upon the south they have done the thing before but they have escaped detec tion until after its consummation now like a thief caught in the manor they have no loop hole of escape they knew their man pierce â€” they knew that van buren and hallett and rantoul and bryant and dix and ihe rest of the free sutlers were going for him with a gush ol enthusiasm he was nominated be cause he could obtain that support â€” and as he was able to obtain it because he was known to van buren & co to loathe the fugitive slave law and to revolt at the institution of slavery how can the people of the south confide in these men any longer with gov joe john son of new york in the executive chair of virginia â€” who has shaken our institutions lo then foundations and a new hampshire yan kee in the presidency whose feelings revolt j at the institution of slavery what is lo become j of us â€” richmond republican the supply of water at new york the j croton river bas been found insufficient to sup j plv the population of new york wilh water j owing to the lavish manner in which it has | beenÂ°used the subject has been made a â– matter of inquiry by the authorities and the lollowing are some ofthe facts reported by the j committee : the minimum flow oflhe croton during a drought is less than 27,000.000 of gallons in 24 hours now all that flow is brought to this city and yet the supply is now down in the re ceiving reservoirs more than three feet lower , lhan the top water line and the distributing j reservoir is not full by ten leet the quantity j that can be delivered in one day is limited to j the capacity of two pipes of three feet diameter j so that if the croton river could afford us any | greater supply we could not get out ol the diffi | culty for some time the committee state that j the cost per gallon is three-fourths of a cent j and that the daily loss by waste amounts to 500,000 per annum the committee con elude their report by the suggestion that unless i ihe citizens voluntarily refrain from the waste j it will be necessary to pass an ordinance stop , pimr ihe supply of water to all steam vessels ; to interdict the use of street washers for two j or three months and to close all public and private fountains and to compel the street sprinklers to obtain their supply from the rtv i ers the new york times thinks it belter to i see if something cannot be done to ascertain | whether the popular inclination may not be in dulged by the extension of croton facilities and says : Â« it is decidedly taking the back track to counsel a more niggardly employment of the element we should rather encourage its use it should be furnished freely to wash out the streets and rinse out the gutters and purify the interiors of sordid houses ia the absence of health officers it is our only hope againsi plague and epidemic by all means enlarge the supply to meel the demand and not attempt lhe hopeless task ol contracting the demand lo lhe measure of a limited supply from the fayetteville observer a great discovery for north carolinei â€” a writer in the washington union mentions prodigious results to flow partic ularly to the turpentine region of north carolina from the discovery of a process to make oil from rosin it is stated that two barrels of the refuse rosin now gen erally thrown away as cosiing more to get to market than it will produce will make one barrel of oil ; that tbe oil is worth 40 cents a gallon at which price the demand for it is greater than lhe sup ply ; that the cost of making the oil is tri fling it is estimated that s50.000.000 are an nually expended in the united states for sperm oil for rail roads factories c and in consequence the price of animal oils has materially advanced a commit tee appointed by the lowell mills has re ported that one-half less power is requi site to drive heavy machinery lubricated with a mixture of this rosin oil with its bulk of sperm oil the mixture costing but three-eights of the price of the sperm re quired when used alone now when we estimate the saving thus effected not only in the cost of the material but the advantages to result from the saving of power required when the mixture is used it will be perceived that one of the most important industrial results known to the present century is being brought through the means of the discovery to which we refer above its effect on the value of property and labor in the pine-bearing re gions of north carolina and georgia can not fail to be wonderful indeed while it tends to cheapen the necessaries and comforts of life in manufacturing regions it must eventually quadruple the value of lands producing rosin which are now or may in time become accessible effects of the dumps â€” a curious case is relaied by the troy budget of a girl in that city losing her speech for a whole week ! be ing disobedient and refusing to answer her mother when spoken to she found â€” after sil ting dumpishly in the corner about an hour brooding over her bad condjet â€” that she was unable to utter or articulate a word her friends did nol lake particular notice of her for a couple of days supposing she was keeping up her pet finally she wrote down ihat she could nol speak when her friends became alar ed and consulted several physicians after a week had passed 9he awoke one morning and found herself again in speaking order tea^coffee indigo a writer in the national intelligencer estimates lhe value of coffee consumed in the united states england and france at s59.000.000 and indigo 82 1.000.000 he states that the genuine tea tree in iis full perfection grows to a height of forty to fifty feet and is cultivated from lat 70 deg to 32 deg north latitude un der severe frosts and snows and many of the mountains high upon whose sides the plant grows are capped with perpetual snow the idea that tea will only flour ish in a hot climate appears to be erone ous he recommends the cultivation of both tea and indigo for which the cli and soil of different sections of this coun try are well adapted he says : tea can be procured in this country un der seven cents a pound calculating labor at 60 cent per diem a tea plantation requires care the first and second years afier which it is a most hardy plant and will yield tea for twenty-five to thirty years so the only trouble is plucking the leaves and drying them which is labor for women and children three men ac tively engaged len hours in the day may collect 50 to go lbs of green leaf and another would manufacture them and the quantity of dried tea would be 12 12 to 15 ibs a lair plantation would produce 300 ibs per acre i have as much as 480 lbs per acre in the year on some land i held on the west of china of indigo he is equally sanguine and denies that its cultivation is unhealthy ; nor is that its character where it is known and cultivated he is of opinion that it can be produced here under 30 cents per lb prices of indigo for the last forty years vary from 1 to 2 per ib new york rowdyism rowdyism has become so rampant in new york that " vigilance committees are re commended to deal oul summary punishment to the offenders the journal of commerce condemns the suggestion as a revolutionary measure taking the administration of jusi.ee out of the hands of the courts and devolving it upon men nol appointed in a legal or const tutional way and by no means necessaiy where public officers who administer justice are elec tive and may be superseded at any time if neg iiaent of their duties the cause of this la ntentable state of affairs in that city 1 aim butes to the citizens themselves in nol elect in the right kind of persons for public officers : Â°> the scandalous conduct ol some of the magistrates including some of the aldermen in releasing rowdies and villains wjthont r al has doubtless done much o embolden the lat ter and lo bring on a state of insecurity both 10 persons and property which in th.s c,.y is al.ogether unprecedented and disgraceful i he hordes of foreigners who come among us many of them ignorant and vicious and not a few adepts in villainy are another cause of our i roubles we have more rogues lo take care of than fairly belong lo ns they are bold daring and reckless tbey must be met by a numerous and efficient police and when con victed punished with the severity which iheir crimes demand we doubt if our present po lice is sufficient but it is belter than the ad min isl ration of jusiice among us bo:h must j be reformed yankee hojiksrin â€” â€¢â€¢ when i lired in maine said uncle ezra i helped to break up a new piece of ground we got the wood . off in winter and early in lhe spi ing we be^un j plowing on't it was so consarned rocky lhal j we had to et forty yoke of oxen to one plow â€” we did fdiih ; and i held ihat plow morn a 'â– i week i thought i should die ; ii e'en a most ! j killed me i vow why one day i was hold'n j and the plow hit a stump which measured jnsl i nine feet and a half through il hard and sound j white oak the plow split it and i was going straight through it when i happened to think it might snap together again so i threw my feel oul and no sooner done ihis than il snapped to i gelher taking a smart hold of ilie seat of my j pantaloons of course i was tight but i held on to lhe handles : and though the teamsters did all they could that team of eighty oxen j | could not tear my pantaloons nor cause me to j let go my grip at last though after letting l the cattle breathe ihey gave another strong pull altogether and the old stump came out about i the quickest it had monsirous long roots loo let me tell you my wiie made the cloth for i them pantaloons and i haven't worn any other i kind since the only reply made to this was ; j i shouid have thought it would have come hard upon your suspenders.'1 powerful hard sam slicks's traits of american humor from the fayettevile observer look out ! â€” our lown is flooded wilh pamphlets sent to our citizens under the frank of members of congress from indi ana new york c we have one now before us addressed to a highly respecta ble whig merchant of this town franked by daniel mace whom neither the receiv er ofthe pamphlet nor ourselves had ever heard of before it requiring a search over the whole list of members of congress to find out whether there was such a man in congress at all it was finally discover ed that there is such a locofoco member from indiana the pamphlet is headed the whig abolitionist attack ! whigs and aboli tionists against pierce and as the au thor seems to have supposed that that was so barefaced a falsehood it would require constant reiteration to make any body j even himself believe it his first sentence i is as follows : the abolitionists are bit terly opposed to franklin pierce the enormity ofthis falsehood is appa rent to every man of the least information does any body deny that john yan bu ren has taken the slump in favor of pierce that martin yran buren the candidate of the abolitionists for presi dent of the u states at the last election has written a letter to the locofocos of tammany hall declaring that if he lives pierce shall have his vote ? does any body deny that gov cleveland of connec ticut and preston king of new york and : kobert rantoul of massachusetts and da j vi d wilmot of pennsylvania all of the very j highest standing in the abolition party ! all eminent leaders of that party are ! open in their support of pierce ? does ! any body deny these well known facts we ask again ? we have not had time to read the pam i phlet entire but setting out with such a ! glaring falsehood we have no doubt that | the whole is in keeping with such a be ginning we would like to know how many of -. t these pamphlets are franked into northern \ states ? not one . . at a meeting of the cape fear and | deep river company at pittsborough on ; thursday last a committee of ways and means recommended the borrowing of 30,000 ; that all the day laborers be dis i charged.and the hands hired by the year be l t put on the lower works ; that the other ex , \ penses of the company be proportionally reduced ; and that the legislature be me ; i morialized for further aid fay ob an item for geologists a letter from lake superior says that a wooden skid was lately found twenty feet below the â– surface upon which was resting a mass i of copper weighing more than five tons ! two copper tools and several hammers i of stone together with coal and ashes of i wood were lying around it as fresh to all appearances as though they had been made last year ; and yet there was six feet of vegetable soil above them sur mounted by a tree which on being cut proved to be at least five hundred years old the pierce development again â€” i had 1 almost made up my mind to vote for pierce but now i would not do it to save his life such was the remark to us on yesterday morning bv a whig friend who was dis satisfied with gen scott's nomination and who had just read " the pierce de 1 velopment will not only have the effect of bringing back into our ranks the few who in a moment of disappointmenr,-had left them but we shall be greatly surpris ed if it does not drive from the support of the democratic nominee many a souihern democrat pet intelligencer law like cob webs catches small flies j a beautiful passage we find in the home book of the pic i turesque the following beautiful passage ! by washington irving : " and here let me say a word in favor ofthose vicissitudes of our climate which are often made the subject of exclusive ! repining if tbey annoy us occasionally i by exchanges from hot to cold from wet j to dry they give us one of the most beau tiful climates in the world they give us the brilliant sunshine south of europe with the fresh verdure of the north tbey float our summer sky with clouds of gor geous tints or fleecy whiteness and send down cooling showers lo refresh the pant ing earth and keep it green our seasons are all poetical ; the phenomena of our heavens are full of sublimity and beauty winter with us has none of its proverbial gloom it may have its howling winds and chilling frosts and whirling snow s.'orms ; but it has also its long intervals ol cloudless sunshine when the snow clad earth gives redoubled brightnes to the day ; when at night the stars beam with intense lustre or the moon floods the whole landscape wilh her most limpid radiance and then the joyous outbrmk of our spring bursting at once into lepf and blossom redundant with vegetation and vocifer ous with life ! and the splendors of our summer â€” its morning voluptuousness and evening glory â€” its airy palaces of sun gilt clouds piled up in a deep blue sky ; and its guests oi tempests of almost tropi cal grandeur when the forked lightning and bellowing thunder volley from lhe battlements of heaven and shake the sul try atmosphere â€” and the sublime melan choly of our autumn magnificent in its decay withering down tbe pomp and pride ofa woodland country yet reflecting back from its yellow forests the golden serenity of the sky ; surely we may say that in our climate " the heavens declare the glory of god and the firmament showeth forth his handiwork ; day unto day utter eth speech ; and night unto night show eth knowledge terrible riot in baltimore â€” the baltimore papers contain accounts ofa disgraceful riol in that city on saturday night between two fire companies the new market and the united â€” they met near the intersection of howard and baltimore streets and loughf*for three hours muskets and pistols were freely used and all sorts of missiles were hurled by the contend ing parlies the fight was renewed between 4 and 5 a m on sunday and lasted ill 7 o'clock a num ber ol persons were wounded among them waller sparks received a pistol ball under his eye and richard hinton one in his arm mr f b didier a merchant while looking on at the fight wa shot in the face and is lying iii a danÂ»erous condition the police seem to have open eilher wilfully negligent or wholly inefficient only one man was arrested aerial voyage â€” m petin the jeronaut pub lishes in the bridgeport standard the following narrative of his recent balloon ascension at ihat place and his landing on long island from which we make the following extract : " 1 threw out more ballast and we ascended nearly as far as it was possible for human be ings to exist ; we had reached the height of 22 000 feet the earth appeared a chaos â€” thermometer at nine degrees below zero the cold was intense ; a heavy hail storm held in the air by a power unknown to us but proba bly an elective power enveloped us in a thrill ing aud awful manner respiiaiion was al most impossible and we could not hear each other speak one of my companions being benumbed fell into a profound sleep we felt so weak that my olher companions and myself were hardly able to open ihe valve al h>l we succeeded in opening il and we descended rapidly to an aliitude ot 13.000 feet the im agination ol one exalted to such an extreme height grows vivid and warm as the body be comes dull and chilled for us no reality no limits were exisling the dreams of betas dine and st pierre were realized universal peace seemed to be on earth and the whole globe were united states bui a strong con densalion of lhe gas brought us back to ihe re alily of terrestrial objects and we descended to the ground suggestions â€” when i see ploughing done year alter year in the same track beside a fence or gully till a dyke of considerable size is thrown up and of course a corresponding leanness in the interior thinks i lo mysell ihere is a want of good husbandry when i see a fruit tree loaded wilh twice ihe top necessary for bearing well ; and this pei haps partly dead thereby keeping the rays of the sun from the under crop thinks i to my sell there is an indication of bad husbandry when i see a total failure of a cr.jp of in dian corn thinks i io mysell if that man had bestowed all lbe manure and perhaps two thirds the labor on half the grouftd he would have had a fair crop of ruta baga lhe following year when i see a farmer selling his ashes lor ten cenis a bushel thinks i lo myself that far mer had belter give his purchaser len cents to leave them on his corn and grain one of the safest and surest cures of diar rhcea is rice waier boil rice until it becomes pasty and after you salt the water in which il was'boiled drink it freely it will prove not only a remedy lor diarrhoea but for dysentery and oilier disarrangements of ihe bowels il is neatly eleven years since we tried this cure and gave it publicity and we know that its op erations are generally beneficial anecdote a friend tells us the following anecdote which we prononnce decidedly good : one of ihe storekeepers of ibis ploce a few days since purchased of an iri?h woman a quantity of butler the lumps of which intend ed for pounds he m weighed in the ballance and found warning sure it's yerown fault if they are light said biddy iu reply lo the complaint of ihe buyer it's yer own fault gir for wasn't it a pound of soap 1 bought heie mesilt that i had in the olher end of tle scale when i weighed em !" the storekeeper had nothing more to say on the subject a lady upon taking up shelby's novel the last man threw il down veiy suddenly ex claiming " the last man ! b.eÂ»s me ! it such a thing ever were lo happen what would he come of lhc women v

wbolwa watchhas tlth1 ; ... tw0 dollars payable in paid in advance two dollars cat|lforthefirst.anÂ»195ctt â€¢.,.,,,;,â€ž ins.-rii c.mrtorders ,.,â€ž, he crates a lib sel,y,heyear ktm jackson california > april 20 1852 $ ., r i hue jnsl received yours uary although i wrote to you proceed forthwith to answer i \ 1 wish to know something nds here j now i advise you rom here il matters not bnv__wbite folks aie uneer 1 ,_, about negroes men are es here nor are there ' _- utile ones it takes hard deal ol economy to make lars a year lo lhe band l own esperience ;) ihis is so ie ni.n do much better â€” but there - tnds who do much t ev hands here c&q make more * "' ,., company expenses are very . ; me larger the company the ted alter having so large a i in niager that i could ii 0 advantageously it is very ' , j-e that a man cannot hold good ' j enough to employ many hands many _ â€¢ e labor under here that - ahout pie in burkeandthe adjoining conn ' lzy about california mark what i j â€ž#_ perhaps many ot them will be or ver entered into such a specula ; ol ihe new comers have wished that i - tried and what must be the lbe mcdowell county company who v 1st december ; â€” last account ihey were ! llexicu left iheir vessel she ler provisions and lhe captain i t the passengers remain there at i , of ihe natives uu idea of coming lo this coun ml few hands wilh you â€” settle on a he kind ol stock most profitable.it | business than digging and if you j ied iu live in ibis country you in the i ime could make a pietfy fortune and enjoy perhaps lir_t tale healih inging lo maj smyth mor bab vli 1 ne ( muddy creek died 1 here â€” u._-o a man named walker i . perkins and thos corpening reached â€¢. days siuce in good health their j 1 none of ihem in very good ! ber a poor prospect before them i ta doing verv well now making near half baud bui soon as 1 work out my . not bave tu hunt better diggings as will last longer â€” moving aboul ga list miners here but we are do i write as often as conven 1 uni yours c i j forney f iliwtrated family friend hv 1 t wli to be a benedict 1 , 1 l.liot greene ii . c id are ihey who say that love â€¢ cl in the heart . il time 5 ml blossoms tart ! ml that springs at ouce i md pert'i ei form ; ; lie oak . - uol in the storm a ack !" went the driver's whip j over lhe frozen road towards liu j m the day advanced more bois '--â– â– - lhe winds and more biting the ! > - rÂ«elttnmycloak,isunkbackin r with the cold and muse â– - o the fair being beside me 3 become dark and 1 could no '" her bright animating counten i ' ld mused but a lew moments when , ' rudely aroused from my pleas | â€¢ - n one hailing us from he 1 hegging the driver to halt , . p gently boys still stand r diew up bis panting cattle redÂ°u hi the gloom and dark 3 who it could be out in such a > he-**j place on such a bitter 1 side ofthe road stood a mid ! uman and four thinly clad children 80 kind sir as to give us pass ; ** charlotte beggeb the half here is five dollars to pay the j and she reached r s'lver to the driver j ia luarm already full crowded me way -â€¢ je'uh n,e what shall i do but . h,j*hai,d gentlemen has just ./'>; ht and is now lying fo .,,, e n of death hewou-ir "â€¢^. ere wi,h'Â»y children and ! through ihe mountains | the carolina watchman j j muner ) r . _ ( keep a cnecitttpon all youk editor 4 proprietor ) rulers { new series do this and liberty is safe < gen'l harrison [ volume ix number 15 . salisbury n c thursday august 12 1852 and have been waitinu h*w io ik__.___^i_j-._-j __:_ i â– 7 t -. es â€” â– "- â– Â«â€¢ â– Â«>= tuiu tuu liiin lor three hours for the stage imtil iwo of my children are speechless wiih cold and then lo be disappointed !" and the poor woman bum into tears Â«â€¢ pity ! piiy ! oh ! lord have mercy upon them ejaculated the beautiful maiden at my side bui pa we must take them in gen tleraen who will be so gallant as to vacate their seats for ihese poor helpless creatures see those poor little children are freezing to death remember gud hath said as ymf do it unto lbe least of these you do it unto me " i would be happy to gratify you miss al ! ice now spoke for the first lime the young gentleman whom i afterwards learned was an important suitor of lhe lady's favored by the father but scorned by he lady favored not lor his virtues but for his princely fortune " i would be happy to gratify you miss alice delancy but would rather be excused irom vacating a comfortable seat and your pleas ant society to give place ior these rude pau pers especially in these mountains in the mid die of such a cold bitter night here wo man take that and begone to some neighbor ! ing farm house and travel at some more 6ea ' sonable hour and he threw in her face a few pieces of silver there is no house in four miles sir the waters are rising last and we would drown or j ireeze on our way back take only my chil dien then and i'll walk alone myself oh ! j do lor the sake of the lives of my children j â€” for the sake of heaven !" and wilh a pite ous moan the poor woman bent forward and gazed imploringly almost frantically up into our laces " by all that's sacred i cant stand this ; they shall have my seat if i should perish on the road !" exclaimed i opening tbe coach door and springing out " here driver lash my baggage to the top of the stage and stow pari of these children into the boot haste ! if you please sir and there is a dollar for your trou ble " oh ! sir kind sir but god will reward you !" murmuied the grateful woman as she seated herself in the coach " will you permit me kind sir to thank you also lor your very humane and gentlemanly conduct spoke the young lady as she extend ed lo rue her soft delicate hand and bestowing one of the sweetest smiles imaginable you have my gratitude sir and proloundest regard true nobility is difficult to find sir hence i would be happy to know more of you â€” but the coach is starting adieu adieu and in a moment 1 found myself alone upon the road ******* twelve months after the events recorded above 1 found myself strolling alone in millord park new orleans striving vainly to overcome a depression ol spirit that had come over me some days previous irom the sad intelligence received from my father that thiough the vil lainy and treachery ofa partner in business he had become a bankrupt and lhal we were now â€” beggars sad sad news to me with my eyes bent upon the ground i strolled along in such an agony of mind thai i scarce noted the fine carriages that passed and re-passed me every moment or the many gay parlies around and was awakened only from my reverie by the flul lei ing of a pei fumed note that fell at my feet as 1 a splei.did coach and four dashed past me â€” , picking it up 1 was somewhat astonished on j reading lhe lollowing â€” " mr ralph emmerson i will please call at 22 corner of benard and st st james streets this evening at six o . clock not a little puzzled to discover who it was | thai dropped the note i betook myself back lo ( my rooms at the si charles lo await lhe ap poinied hour although my father had been j long and favorably known as a wealthy thrifty merchant in new orleans yet i was myself quite a stranger in the city not having the pleas j tue ol an acquaintance wilh a single lady lor 1 had been absent from home for a number ol j years and had returned but a few days pre 1 vious four years oi my life had been spent in foreign travel and one the lasl in searching for lhe fair stranger 1 met 12 months previous in the stage coach running from morganton to lincolnton north carolina who could it be then could it be alice delancy the long lost long sought of my heart ? but no ! no vet the hour draws nigh 1 will wait ; and lor j a time my curiosity and anxiety drowned the heavy weight al my heart and alleviated my soriows occasioned by the misfortunes of my , lather lt wants but forty minutes of the hour how heavy how slowly lime flies thirty minutes twenty-five ah 1 can't wait longer j â€¢> hilloa omnibus drive me to 22 corner o , bernard and st james streets and in five minutes i was set down before a princely man sion 1 rang lhe bell and was ushered by a servant through a suit of rooms into a gor geously decorated chamber where i was re quested to tarry a moment seating myself on a rich sola 1 ran my admiring eyes over the magnificent mirrors and paintings tha decora ted'.he walls when i thought i recognized a familiar countenance in a painting suspended j over a mantel . , ; approaching it i perceived to my joy and astonishment that it was the likeness of my long sough alice delancy of stage coach me mofy.and forgetting myself andmy whereabouts i my ex.acy 1 sprangjoyfully forward exc aim ing aloud alice sweet alice and hate i found vou at last a merry peal of laughter rang out behind me just as i was reaching ou my arms to embrace the loved f>ih startled half abashed i turned round and be original herself but i was so overpowered i could nol utter a word of greeting nor the lady either for perceiving my ex.acy before her l^r trait as she entered she could do nought tn her modesty but stand and blush scarlet in a mo men however 1 had gained my jj so far as to greet the fair lady and lead her 10 and gentle reader before i arose from that sofa i-ugh-but my wife will nol let me tell how 1 popped the question and was accepted ; she hasp hepr hand upon my mouth and threatens me wiih sore punishment if i say anything a oout the many sweel kisses " oh ! well pray alice dear behave and i will skip over that i part let it suffice dear reader i wag united in a cw weeks to the gentle alice by and wiih the j advice and consent of her father who bad long since like a sensible man given up all hopes of selecting a husband for his daughter â€” as he soon learned both by experience and observa i tion that every woman was by far the best ' qualified to choose her own husband and also | the truth of that aphorism that â€” " when she will she will you may depend on't aud when she won't she won't so there's an end on't editing a paper hear what the national intelligencer says about editing a newspaper : many people estimate the ability of newspaper and the industry and talent of i its editor by the editorial matter it con ', tains it is comparatively an easy task j for a frothy writer to pour out daily col ' umns of words â€” words upon any and all j subjects his ideas may flow in one j wishy-washy everlasting flood and his command of language may enable him to string them together like bunches of on | ions ; and yet his paper may be a meagre j and poor concern but what is the toil j ofsuchaman who displays his leaded matter largely to that imposed on a judi cious well informed editor who exercises his vocation with an hourly consciousness ol his responsibilities and duties and de votes himself to the conduct of his paper with the same care and assiduity that a sensible lawyer bestows upon a suit a hu mane physician upon a patient without regard to show or display ! indeed the mere writing part of editing a paper is but a small portion of the work the care the time employed in selecting is far more important than the fact of a good editor better known by his selections lhan any thing else and that we all know is half the battle but as we have said an edi tor ought to be estimated and his labors understood and apprciated by the gener al conduct ot his paper its tone its princi ple and aims its manliness its dignity and propriety to preserve these as they should be preserved is enough to occupy fully ihe time and attention of any many if to this be added the general supervision of the newspaper establishment which most editors have to encounter the won der is how they find time to write at all sky high sir sky high wherever the news of gen pierce's " home views " on the fugitive slave law and the in stitutions ofthe soulh has extended il has pro duced a prodigious sensation in charlottes i viile a public meeting was forthwith held and j the changes rung upon the shameful fraud with immense effect people are beginning to won der in all quarters that they could have been imposed upon so long by such gross impostures the revelations from new boston exhibit the locolocos in the very act of playing a yan kee trick upon the south they have done the thing before but they have escaped detec tion until after its consummation now like a thief caught in the manor they have no loop hole of escape they knew their man pierce â€” they knew that van buren and hallett and rantoul and bryant and dix and ihe rest of the free sutlers were going for him with a gush ol enthusiasm he was nominated be cause he could obtain that support â€” and as he was able to obtain it because he was known to van buren & co to loathe the fugitive slave law and to revolt at the institution of slavery how can the people of the south confide in these men any longer with gov joe john son of new york in the executive chair of virginia â€” who has shaken our institutions lo then foundations and a new hampshire yan kee in the presidency whose feelings revolt j at the institution of slavery what is lo become j of us â€” richmond republican the supply of water at new york the j croton river bas been found insufficient to sup j plv the population of new york wilh water j owing to the lavish manner in which it has | beenÂ°used the subject has been made a â– matter of inquiry by the authorities and the lollowing are some ofthe facts reported by the j committee : the minimum flow oflhe croton during a drought is less than 27,000.000 of gallons in 24 hours now all that flow is brought to this city and yet the supply is now down in the re ceiving reservoirs more than three feet lower , lhan the top water line and the distributing j reservoir is not full by ten leet the quantity j that can be delivered in one day is limited to j the capacity of two pipes of three feet diameter j so that if the croton river could afford us any | greater supply we could not get out ol the diffi | culty for some time the committee state that j the cost per gallon is three-fourths of a cent j and that the daily loss by waste amounts to 500,000 per annum the committee con elude their report by the suggestion that unless i ihe citizens voluntarily refrain from the waste j it will be necessary to pass an ordinance stop , pimr ihe supply of water to all steam vessels ; to interdict the use of street washers for two j or three months and to close all public and private fountains and to compel the street sprinklers to obtain their supply from the rtv i ers the new york times thinks it belter to i see if something cannot be done to ascertain | whether the popular inclination may not be in dulged by the extension of croton facilities and says : Â« it is decidedly taking the back track to counsel a more niggardly employment of the element we should rather encourage its use it should be furnished freely to wash out the streets and rinse out the gutters and purify the interiors of sordid houses ia the absence of health officers it is our only hope againsi plague and epidemic by all means enlarge the supply to meel the demand and not attempt lhe hopeless task ol contracting the demand lo lhe measure of a limited supply from the fayetteville observer a great discovery for north carolinei â€” a writer in the washington union mentions prodigious results to flow partic ularly to the turpentine region of north carolina from the discovery of a process to make oil from rosin it is stated that two barrels of the refuse rosin now gen erally thrown away as cosiing more to get to market than it will produce will make one barrel of oil ; that tbe oil is worth 40 cents a gallon at which price the demand for it is greater than lhe sup ply ; that the cost of making the oil is tri fling it is estimated that s50.000.000 are an nually expended in the united states for sperm oil for rail roads factories c and in consequence the price of animal oils has materially advanced a commit tee appointed by the lowell mills has re ported that one-half less power is requi site to drive heavy machinery lubricated with a mixture of this rosin oil with its bulk of sperm oil the mixture costing but three-eights of the price of the sperm re quired when used alone now when we estimate the saving thus effected not only in the cost of the material but the advantages to result from the saving of power required when the mixture is used it will be perceived that one of the most important industrial results known to the present century is being brought through the means of the discovery to which we refer above its effect on the value of property and labor in the pine-bearing re gions of north carolina and georgia can not fail to be wonderful indeed while it tends to cheapen the necessaries and comforts of life in manufacturing regions it must eventually quadruple the value of lands producing rosin which are now or may in time become accessible effects of the dumps â€” a curious case is relaied by the troy budget of a girl in that city losing her speech for a whole week ! be ing disobedient and refusing to answer her mother when spoken to she found â€” after sil ting dumpishly in the corner about an hour brooding over her bad condjet â€” that she was unable to utter or articulate a word her friends did nol lake particular notice of her for a couple of days supposing she was keeping up her pet finally she wrote down ihat she could nol speak when her friends became alar ed and consulted several physicians after a week had passed 9he awoke one morning and found herself again in speaking order tea^coffee indigo a writer in the national intelligencer estimates lhe value of coffee consumed in the united states england and france at s59.000.000 and indigo 82 1.000.000 he states that the genuine tea tree in iis full perfection grows to a height of forty to fifty feet and is cultivated from lat 70 deg to 32 deg north latitude un der severe frosts and snows and many of the mountains high upon whose sides the plant grows are capped with perpetual snow the idea that tea will only flour ish in a hot climate appears to be erone ous he recommends the cultivation of both tea and indigo for which the cli and soil of different sections of this coun try are well adapted he says : tea can be procured in this country un der seven cents a pound calculating labor at 60 cent per diem a tea plantation requires care the first and second years afier which it is a most hardy plant and will yield tea for twenty-five to thirty years so the only trouble is plucking the leaves and drying them which is labor for women and children three men ac tively engaged len hours in the day may collect 50 to go lbs of green leaf and another would manufacture them and the quantity of dried tea would be 12 12 to 15 ibs a lair plantation would produce 300 ibs per acre i have as much as 480 lbs per acre in the year on some land i held on the west of china of indigo he is equally sanguine and denies that its cultivation is unhealthy ; nor is that its character where it is known and cultivated he is of opinion that it can be produced here under 30 cents per lb prices of indigo for the last forty years vary from 1 to 2 per ib new york rowdyism rowdyism has become so rampant in new york that " vigilance committees are re commended to deal oul summary punishment to the offenders the journal of commerce condemns the suggestion as a revolutionary measure taking the administration of jusi.ee out of the hands of the courts and devolving it upon men nol appointed in a legal or const tutional way and by no means necessaiy where public officers who administer justice are elec tive and may be superseded at any time if neg iiaent of their duties the cause of this la ntentable state of affairs in that city 1 aim butes to the citizens themselves in nol elect in the right kind of persons for public officers : Â°> the scandalous conduct ol some of the magistrates including some of the aldermen in releasing rowdies and villains wjthont r al has doubtless done much o embolden the lat ter and lo bring on a state of insecurity both 10 persons and property which in th.s c,.y is al.ogether unprecedented and disgraceful i he hordes of foreigners who come among us many of them ignorant and vicious and not a few adepts in villainy are another cause of our i roubles we have more rogues lo take care of than fairly belong lo ns they are bold daring and reckless tbey must be met by a numerous and efficient police and when con victed punished with the severity which iheir crimes demand we doubt if our present po lice is sufficient but it is belter than the ad min isl ration of jusiice among us bo:h must j be reformed yankee hojiksrin â€” â€¢â€¢ when i lired in maine said uncle ezra i helped to break up a new piece of ground we got the wood . off in winter and early in lhe spi ing we be^un j plowing on't it was so consarned rocky lhal j we had to et forty yoke of oxen to one plow â€” we did fdiih ; and i held ihat plow morn a 'â– i week i thought i should die ; ii e'en a most ! j killed me i vow why one day i was hold'n j and the plow hit a stump which measured jnsl i nine feet and a half through il hard and sound j white oak the plow split it and i was going straight through it when i happened to think it might snap together again so i threw my feel oul and no sooner done ihis than il snapped to i gelher taking a smart hold of ilie seat of my j pantaloons of course i was tight but i held on to lhe handles : and though the teamsters did all they could that team of eighty oxen j | could not tear my pantaloons nor cause me to j let go my grip at last though after letting l the cattle breathe ihey gave another strong pull altogether and the old stump came out about i the quickest it had monsirous long roots loo let me tell you my wiie made the cloth for i them pantaloons and i haven't worn any other i kind since the only reply made to this was ; j i shouid have thought it would have come hard upon your suspenders.'1 powerful hard sam slicks's traits of american humor from the fayettevile observer look out ! â€” our lown is flooded wilh pamphlets sent to our citizens under the frank of members of congress from indi ana new york c we have one now before us addressed to a highly respecta ble whig merchant of this town franked by daniel mace whom neither the receiv er ofthe pamphlet nor ourselves had ever heard of before it requiring a search over the whole list of members of congress to find out whether there was such a man in congress at all it was finally discover ed that there is such a locofoco member from indiana the pamphlet is headed the whig abolitionist attack ! whigs and aboli tionists against pierce and as the au thor seems to have supposed that that was so barefaced a falsehood it would require constant reiteration to make any body j even himself believe it his first sentence i is as follows : the abolitionists are bit terly opposed to franklin pierce the enormity ofthis falsehood is appa rent to every man of the least information does any body deny that john yan bu ren has taken the slump in favor of pierce that martin yran buren the candidate of the abolitionists for presi dent of the u states at the last election has written a letter to the locofocos of tammany hall declaring that if he lives pierce shall have his vote ? does any body deny that gov cleveland of connec ticut and preston king of new york and : kobert rantoul of massachusetts and da j vi d wilmot of pennsylvania all of the very j highest standing in the abolition party ! all eminent leaders of that party are ! open in their support of pierce ? does ! any body deny these well known facts we ask again ? we have not had time to read the pam i phlet entire but setting out with such a ! glaring falsehood we have no doubt that | the whole is in keeping with such a be ginning we would like to know how many of -. t these pamphlets are franked into northern \ states ? not one . . at a meeting of the cape fear and | deep river company at pittsborough on ; thursday last a committee of ways and means recommended the borrowing of 30,000 ; that all the day laborers be dis i charged.and the hands hired by the year be l t put on the lower works ; that the other ex , \ penses of the company be proportionally reduced ; and that the legislature be me ; i morialized for further aid fay ob an item for geologists a letter from lake superior says that a wooden skid was lately found twenty feet below the â– surface upon which was resting a mass i of copper weighing more than five tons ! two copper tools and several hammers i of stone together with coal and ashes of i wood were lying around it as fresh to all appearances as though they had been made last year ; and yet there was six feet of vegetable soil above them sur mounted by a tree which on being cut proved to be at least five hundred years old the pierce development again â€” i had 1 almost made up my mind to vote for pierce but now i would not do it to save his life such was the remark to us on yesterday morning bv a whig friend who was dis satisfied with gen scott's nomination and who had just read " the pierce de 1 velopment will not only have the effect of bringing back into our ranks the few who in a moment of disappointmenr,-had left them but we shall be greatly surpris ed if it does not drive from the support of the democratic nominee many a souihern democrat pet intelligencer law like cob webs catches small flies j a beautiful passage we find in the home book of the pic i turesque the following beautiful passage ! by washington irving : " and here let me say a word in favor ofthose vicissitudes of our climate which are often made the subject of exclusive ! repining if tbey annoy us occasionally i by exchanges from hot to cold from wet j to dry they give us one of the most beau tiful climates in the world they give us the brilliant sunshine south of europe with the fresh verdure of the north tbey float our summer sky with clouds of gor geous tints or fleecy whiteness and send down cooling showers lo refresh the pant ing earth and keep it green our seasons are all poetical ; the phenomena of our heavens are full of sublimity and beauty winter with us has none of its proverbial gloom it may have its howling winds and chilling frosts and whirling snow s.'orms ; but it has also its long intervals ol cloudless sunshine when the snow clad earth gives redoubled brightnes to the day ; when at night the stars beam with intense lustre or the moon floods the whole landscape wilh her most limpid radiance and then the joyous outbrmk of our spring bursting at once into lepf and blossom redundant with vegetation and vocifer ous with life ! and the splendors of our summer â€” its morning voluptuousness and evening glory â€” its airy palaces of sun gilt clouds piled up in a deep blue sky ; and its guests oi tempests of almost tropi cal grandeur when the forked lightning and bellowing thunder volley from lhe battlements of heaven and shake the sul try atmosphere â€” and the sublime melan choly of our autumn magnificent in its decay withering down tbe pomp and pride ofa woodland country yet reflecting back from its yellow forests the golden serenity of the sky ; surely we may say that in our climate " the heavens declare the glory of god and the firmament showeth forth his handiwork ; day unto day utter eth speech ; and night unto night show eth knowledge terrible riot in baltimore â€” the baltimore papers contain accounts ofa disgraceful riol in that city on saturday night between two fire companies the new market and the united â€” they met near the intersection of howard and baltimore streets and loughf*for three hours muskets and pistols were freely used and all sorts of missiles were hurled by the contend ing parlies the fight was renewed between 4 and 5 a m on sunday and lasted ill 7 o'clock a num ber ol persons were wounded among them waller sparks received a pistol ball under his eye and richard hinton one in his arm mr f b didier a merchant while looking on at the fight wa shot in the face and is lying iii a danÂ»erous condition the police seem to have open eilher wilfully negligent or wholly inefficient only one man was arrested aerial voyage â€” m petin the jeronaut pub lishes in the bridgeport standard the following narrative of his recent balloon ascension at ihat place and his landing on long island from which we make the following extract : " 1 threw out more ballast and we ascended nearly as far as it was possible for human be ings to exist ; we had reached the height of 22 000 feet the earth appeared a chaos â€” thermometer at nine degrees below zero the cold was intense ; a heavy hail storm held in the air by a power unknown to us but proba bly an elective power enveloped us in a thrill ing aud awful manner respiiaiion was al most impossible and we could not hear each other speak one of my companions being benumbed fell into a profound sleep we felt so weak that my olher companions and myself were hardly able to open ihe valve al h>l we succeeded in opening il and we descended rapidly to an aliitude ot 13.000 feet the im agination ol one exalted to such an extreme height grows vivid and warm as the body be comes dull and chilled for us no reality no limits were exisling the dreams of betas dine and st pierre were realized universal peace seemed to be on earth and the whole globe were united states bui a strong con densalion of lhe gas brought us back to ihe re alily of terrestrial objects and we descended to the ground suggestions â€” when i see ploughing done year alter year in the same track beside a fence or gully till a dyke of considerable size is thrown up and of course a corresponding leanness in the interior thinks i lo mysell ihere is a want of good husbandry when i see a fruit tree loaded wilh twice ihe top necessary for bearing well ; and this pei haps partly dead thereby keeping the rays of the sun from the under crop thinks i to my sell there is an indication of bad husbandry when i see a total failure of a cr.jp of in dian corn thinks i io mysell if that man had bestowed all lbe manure and perhaps two thirds the labor on half the grouftd he would have had a fair crop of ruta baga lhe following year when i see a farmer selling his ashes lor ten cenis a bushel thinks i lo myself that far mer had belter give his purchaser len cents to leave them on his corn and grain one of the safest and surest cures of diar rhcea is rice waier boil rice until it becomes pasty and after you salt the water in which il was'boiled drink it freely it will prove not only a remedy lor diarrhoea but for dysentery and oilier disarrangements of ihe bowels il is neatly eleven years since we tried this cure and gave it publicity and we know that its op erations are generally beneficial anecdote a friend tells us the following anecdote which we prononnce decidedly good : one of ihe storekeepers of ibis ploce a few days since purchased of an iri?h woman a quantity of butler the lumps of which intend ed for pounds he m weighed in the ballance and found warning sure it's yerown fault if they are light said biddy iu reply lo the complaint of ihe buyer it's yer own fault gir for wasn't it a pound of soap 1 bought heie mesilt that i had in the olher end of tle scale when i weighed em !" the storekeeper had nothing more to say on the subject a lady upon taking up shelby's novel the last man threw il down veiy suddenly ex claiming " the last man ! b.eÂ»s me ! it such a thing ever were lo happen what would he come of lhc women v